May of 2004

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Preparation of national adaptation plan of action begun

Lake

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 401 views
Screening in schools draws complaints

Education- Student

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 331 views
On elections and democracy

Kuensel

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Four more infected with HIV

Health-HIV/AIDS

May 14, 2004 0 mins read 457 views
Villagers build own farm road

Roads

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 342 views
Yarn makers optimistic markets will bounce

Handicraft

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 355 views
Power tiller tracks, a better option to provide rural access

Agriculture Activities

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 458 views
Develop SMEs, create more jobs

Labour and Human Resource

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 365 views
Planned township for Lhuentse

Dzongkhags

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 381 views
YDRC successful in rehabilitating juveniles

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 362 views
Towards sharing a common pool of tourists

Tourism

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 446 views
Work on the east-west highway behind time

Roads

May 28, 2004 4 mins read 384 views
Vehicle accessory thieves caught

Crime

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 370 views
Foundation provides free surgery

Health Disease

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 378 views
Quality assurance plan needed for construction

Ministry of Work & Housing

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 378 views
HIV/AIDS dominate WHO assembly in Geneva

Health-HIV/AIDS

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 287 views
Building ties with Singapore

Bhutan-Asia

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 368 views
A matter of height

Druk Air

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 305 views
Honourary consul visits Bhutan

Visitors

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 304 views
Need for search and rescue team

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 299 views
Ura tshechu

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 311 views
Safe travel

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 0 mins read 334 views
Privatise health service

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 353 views
Closer to the people

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 324 views
Streamline Phuentsholing

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 351 views
Tackling corruption

Editorial

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 0 views
Bhutan needs to strengthen relations with northeast India

Bhutan- India

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 380 views
Ban lifted on import of poultry from India

Agriculture Activities

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 328 views
Bribery trial completed, verdict awaited

Crime

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 342 views
Hard drugs seized

Crime

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 338 views
Investigation underway in Paro election

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 287 views
Trashigang to re-elect councillor candidate

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 315 views
Rapist sentenced

Crime

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Encouraging shitake cultivation

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 263 views
Double laning Thimphu -Phuentsholing highway

Roads

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 345 views
Bringing the world's largest book to Bhutan

Books

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 351 views
Expressway to be ready next year

Roads

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 322 views
Urban Trashigang skips stray sterlisation campaign

City Corporation

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 280 views
Yedzin club leads in A division national league tournament

Sport

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 336 views
Jobs created but employment slow

Labour and Human Resource

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 341 views
No legal teeth to enforce basic food standards

Consumers

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 293 views
Matsutake export picks up again

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 3 mins read 301 views
Farmers welcome timely rain

Agriculture/Horticulture

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 364 views
45 teams competing in Coronation Cup tournament

Sport

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 299 views
Environmental education through participation

Education- Schools

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 296 views
The spider and the piglet

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 421 views
Paddy cultivation reintroduced in Bumthang

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 313 views
Supposed tax evasion questioned

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 316 views
Professionalising Bhutanese guides

Tourism

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 372 views
Audit objects to embassy payments

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 310 views
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Recents

Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country taking its first steps toward modernisation, while gradually coming out from years of isolation. Geo-politically, it was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

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The selfless Warrior-King

The winter of 2003 would forever be etched in Bhutan’s history as the time when a King walked into the jungles of the south, especially in Samdrupjongkhar, not as a ruler commanding from afar, but as a warrior leading from the front. The air was cold, heavy with mist, and beneath the thick canopy of trees lay the sound of tension.  A nation’s patience was stretched to its limit.

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Tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo

Throughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compassion, and courage that defines true greatness. Bhutan is fortunate to have been blessed by such a leader in His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a visionary Monarch whose reign ushered the nation into an era of peace, progress, and profound transforma

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King who sacrificed his youth to build a future for us

Among the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves the heart most profoundly is something far more silent, far less seen: the quiet, invisible sacrifice of his own youth. It is a story etched deeply in the soul of the nation, for in giving up his own, he gifted a future to us.

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The Vajrayana King

As Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, marks one of the most sacred and transformative eras in our history.

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